The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 31, 1916, Page 4

- WHy NoT RoTATE THE HOGS AND HAVE. BETTER BsAaconN! PLANT YOUR WHEAT iN CIRCULAR BEDS THAT CAN BE REVOLVED —~ TURN ONCE A DAY. THIS ]"1'S WHAT 1S KNowN As CROP ROTATION! WITH SUGAR AND VINEGAR AND TURN IT “ROUND 1 8 (l | WITH AN ouLD !4 NAG SERVE |l — Sy N /'/'__..lfl!_fl = Y “I have noticed,” says Professor M. T. Dome, the noted scientist, “that all the best authorities advise the "YOUR CROPS,” ADVISES PROF. M. T. DOME A. MERRY-GO-ROUND "WiLL BE GREAT .AMUSEMENT. FOR THE K|DS AND WiLL ALSO ROTATE | THE CROPS AT ' § THE SAME TIME! /4 \ B = ‘\\ CROP "ROTATIONY “A FoRm I'LL BET MY OfsroSh w o WHEAT CRoP BETCHA MY CROP 'GAINST - YOURS-TI . BEATCHA! =Y rotation of crops. however, to see any practicable mechanical devices for accomplishing this on the market, nor any devices at all for this purpose, I may say. I do not think it fair to expect the common yeoman to have the necessary mechanical ingenuity to work out this problem for himself, so I have sketch;,d: & number of simple little designs which I am sure will prove thoroughly | “Of course, the main drawback is that none of these provide for rotating over a large area, have it solved soon. If any of your readers have any devices that they they are not.” : ING JUSTICE DONE or are they more interested in INCREASING THE MASS OF LITIGATION AND MAKING IT MORE EXPENSIVE FOR LITIGANTS? More litigation and more expensive litigation would MAKE MORE LAWYERS RICH, but is that what the PEOPLE want? : The farmers need not pay much attention to what the politicians are SAYING just now, but they want to watch very closely to see WHAT IS GOING ON UNDER THE SURFACE. The supreme court question is only one feature of the many. * * HAS THE LEAGUE BEEN “SWALLOWED”? * One of the latest tricks of the'Old Gang is to try to make it appear - that the Nonpartisan League has been SWALLOWED by the REPUB- LICAN PARTY. They point to the fact that all but one of the Repub- lican state nominees are Nonpartisan League candidates. “The Non- , Ppartisan League is now nothing but a Republican faction,” they say, and they add that they “can’t see why any Democrat should vote for any: of these Republican candidates.” ! i The object of this is to BUILD UP PARTY DIVISIONS AGAIN, the very thing the Nonpartisin League was formed to BREAK DOWN. They want to get the farmers to thinking 6f the POLITICAL PARTY as the thing of FIRST IMPORTANCE, so that the Democrats among the League members will desert the candidates running on the Repub- lican ticket and the Republicans will desert the candidates running on the Democratic ticket. Such an outcome would probably defeat many of the c¢andidates for the state senate and would certainly defeat P. M. Casey of Lisbon, the League’s candidate for state treasurer, one of the VERY 'ABLEST men on the whole state ticket. i , ; " The majority of farmers and friends of the people’s cause are not going to be deceived by this trick. They have been expecting it. They knew it would come, and why. They have known all along that the only - hope of the Old Gang was to keep people thinking and voting on state affairs along old-party lines. So they keep chattering away about state politics from the standpoint of PARTY INTERESTS all the time, : So these Old Gang papers and Old Gang politicians all the time per- sistently misinterpret and distort the whole plan of action of ‘the Non- partisan . Lea\gue and every word of explanation prinbgd in the Leader although it is all as plain as daylight and well understoed by the great majority of the members of the League. ; ; G > %* *® * \ THE REAL CAMPAIGN ISSUE Yo National _fiart'y issues ‘have little to de with state affairs, Yet the law in this state is so framed that to have any chance of success a can- Al . affairs they aie all of one belief. They - the support of the majority of the voters of feasible for application ' 4 . y but I am working on this problem and expect te’ consider superior to .mine, I shall be glad to see them .and to prove that didate must run under one party label or another. The League'is non- : partisan. Its members chose their candidates WITHOUT ASKING OR CARING in most instances, to what party they belonged. ° Then these candidates ran on the ballots of their own national parties, as they have a perfect right to do under the law. : But these candidates all ran UPON A DEFINITE PLATFORM, A& - DEFINITE STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES. There was no deceit about it at all. The candidates asked votes upon the strength of their BELIEF IN THE AIMS AND PRINCIPLES OF THE NONPARTISAN . LEAGUE. ; : 2o . They had a perfect right to do that. . It was proper that they should - do it. They would have no business running on natienal issues, which have NO RELATION to state affairs. It is the business of a candidate for state office to make plain his position regarding QUESTIONS WITH- IN THE STATE. ' If he does not do that he is not fit to be elected. & * % % THE CANDIDATES HAVEN'T CHANGED Now these men have bgen nominated. It has been made plain that the majority of the voters who nominated them BELIEVE IN THE PRINCIPLES OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE. \ ' .. These men have not changed their platforms or their principles since they were nominated. They still believe:in. THE CONTROL OF THE AFFAIRS OF NORTH DAKOTA BY THE PEOPLE OF NORTH DAKOTA. " That is, in short, the issue upon they were’ nominated. Their opi)gnents didn’t believe in that. ‘They believed-in the continua- tion of the control of the- affairs of North Dakota by Big Business in Minnesota and Illinois and New York.. The voters preferred the North Dakota - platform. They believe in Home industry and home-made politics. You can’t blame them for that. : e The candidates of the Nonpartisan League will be together on one: ballot in the election, November 7.” Some will be in the columns labeled “Republican” and some in:the column labeled “Democrat.? Butin state’ represent CLEAN GOVERN-~ MENT and HOME RULE. Voters who believe in those things will vote for the-Nonpartisan League candidates, no matter whether they are | The Nonpartisan League candidates do not stand on the _narrew platform of partisanship. They stand on real principles and real promises. concerning things that.have a vital interest to the people of the stat It is upon that basis they ask votes and on that basis they will North Dakota wi gard to ancesiry, creed, the Wilson diplomacy ff,